can you.............

bank calories if you know that you have a special event on or would you do extra activities to burn any overload off?

before i would bank and overall for the week would not exceed my calorie intake

any advice please?

someone here suggested that to me, and i think its ok, but not excessivly. like, if you come in under 200 for a few days before hand, you can "put them in the bank." but i wouldn't use it as a way to binge eat. besides, having a 'cheat' day is ok once in a while, and as long as its not you eating two pizzas at home and a case of beer. remember, this is a lifestyle change!!!

i'd bank them, but keep in mind that your weight will probably fluctuate the day you eat more food than usual so you probably shouldn't weigh or should take your weight with a grain of salt.

if that makes sense.

Looking at your ticker, you are only just starting on your new life...is it some major event that you have to go to?

I wouldn`t try banking calories so early on in your journey.

Just my opinion x

In theory, it should balance out over a week, however I would use caution not to eat too few calories overall--like don't leave huge deficits on other days for a giant splurge on a single day. Maybe save up 50-100 or so on the other 6 days to use the bank on the 7th.

For me it seems to work best if I reconcile over 24 hours, rather than waiting a week. If I have a big calorie burn (say 2000 exercise cals) I can't eat in one day, I will eat some the day before and/or day after.

For me I don't stretch it over a longer period bc in the past the reason for my weight gain was that I was not eating enough to fuel my body for workouts. I used to eat minimum WW points and then splurge on Sat nights, but I discovered that overall my calorie intake was too little. Once I began eating more calories on the day that I burn them I lost weight.

I think of it like this: If I do a big workout on Tuesday, but save all my exercise calories for Saturday night, my body doesn't know I'm going to feed it extra on Saturday, it just knows I didn't feed it enough for the work I demanded of it on Tues. So for me, I think it slows down the metabolism.

blessings.

The smart money says to eat little and often. If I'm planning a blowout I just exercise like a demon the day after.

Some people zig zag their week, eating more some days and less others and netting out the week instead of the day. I think I do this to some extent, I end up coming in low most days but I make up for it on weekends sometimes.

Yes, you can .. just don't do it often, no more than once a week.

I pay attention to my weekly average more than I do to my daily totals.